whats the difference casting a bamboo rod to one of todays modern rods.


terry

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You'll get many good answers, but here's a place to start.

fae

Fish Tested bamboo fly rods -- other information

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That's a great link Fred, very interesting reading. I'd love to try one some time soon.

Fifty years!

Bit like comparing a stealth bomber to a shackleton!

Different materials and differnt styles of operation!

One is slow and relaxed to operate.

The other is fast and frenetic to operate

one weighs a lot more than the other in size to weight ratio.

but freds post says it all!

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bert

Roger that my Friend. My first real 'go' in a weeks time. Save for unraveling my 'screw up.' Posts back on that have been a genuine education on how to back yourself out of a hole you're digging deeper as you stand in same.

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I fish 99% of the time with bamboo, even in the salt, except for when I'm targeting big-game fish, and I'd like to modify just a little what Bert said.

Bamboo is definitely much more relaxed when it comes to casting, but not necessarily slow. You can get very tight loops on most rods, and some are certainly fast-ish, like the Orvis Rocky Mountain series or rods from some of the contemporary makers, especially ones made in Italy -- my friend Marino makes a nice 6-7' rod that is perfect for the Italian TLT method which requires high line speeds.

Weight to size ratio: again, you'd be surprised how light bamboo rods can be. My favorite small stream rod, an impregnated Orvis Flea 4wt, is 6-1/2' long and weighs all of 2.1 ounces. My go-to light saltwater rod, an impregnated Wright and McGill Water Seal FA 6/7wt, is 9' long and weighs 5.2 oz, which is actually lighter than my 908-4 Orvis TLS Power Matrix at 9' and 5.3 oz.

Like it says in the article in Fred's post, a bamboo rod is more than happy to do most of the work of casting, and you really do feel it load and unload -- once you know how a particular rod works, most times you don't ever need to look at your back cast, which is probably true for graphite rods, I suppose.

One last thing: bamboo rods roll cast really well, much better than graphite, IMHO.

Kenneth

One fills you with pleasure the other is okay...

richard

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technically speaking bamboo has more counterflex than carbon, this can be a bit wibbly wobbly if not used to it, actually its wibbly wobbly even if you are

cost has to come into it too, many cane rods are just useless.

Bigtel

The answer is tennis elbow! That's what you get from trying to cast with a floppy plank weighing about half a pound instead of nice crisp carbon checking in at around 3oz.

think i will stay with modern rods for moment

thanks for comments guys

terry

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